"Insp Dixon said the accident served as a warning to the dangers of growing cannabis."

BULLSHIAT! If you blow youself up growing weed, you're a jackass to begin with. I see cops raiding houses and pulling out handfuls of plants, in full spaceman suits and bio gear. Holy crap people, they're growing pot, not manufacturing Nitro Glycerine for Hytes sakes. You've got plants, soil or rockwool, water and nutrients. None of which is explosive. If the place burns down from an electrical fire, you're a jackass because you're plugging 3000 watts of light into 10A circuit.

So remember, if you ever accidentally walk into an outdoor pot grow, don't light a cigarette! The whole plot will explode and create a crater a mile wide, that is if the fleash eating fumes don't get you first.

How about dangers of growing anything requiring gas and power in a tiny underground bunker that you can't run much power to or let heat escape from for fear that the cops will send you to jail.

This is a great illustration of the idiocy of the war on drugs. What, weed will ruin your life? Not as much as prison will, and not as much as getting farking blown up because you can't grow it in a safe manner for fear of getting caught by the feds.

Growing weed is dangerous? What kind of BS is that. I suppose had the guy been in the tank taking a healthy shait, that would be dangerous too? Although that would at least account for the gas buildup prior to the explosion.

Gotta love the ad on the page though:[image from adsrv.news.com.au too old to be available]

(Especially appropriate considering that "fantasy" is precisely the class of mental process that keeps this asinine war alive in the first place. Oh that and "plain idiocy" as well as "evil, malevolence, and hatred towards humanity and individual freedom."

An unfortunate accident. Alchohol kills more people in a year then weed EVER will yet innocent people are put in jail for doing no more having fun and not bothering ANYONE. This is just proof that the government will breach any gap of logic to peddle its fascistic drug war. A big FARK YOU to the people on this thread who are ignorantly poking fun at this man, the next time you get drunk I hope you fall down and break your neck.

No. The THC in weed eventually breaks down almost completely into CBD, another psychoactive compound found in pot. The end result is the 'high' you normally get from THC is replaced by that lethargic heavy 'stone' one gets from smoking stuff like street oil. The best smoke is always the freshest. It doesn't get better with age like wine.

Hytes Xian: Valid point, but more commonly things like "Insp Dixon said the accident served as a warning to the dangers of growing cannabis." are said. How does one argue logic like this? With slightly less flawed logic going the other way. Remember, someone won a lot of money from McD's because of that scalding coffee...